Amihai Motro: Publications by Subject

Intelligent information integration, virtual databases

  1. Database integration (Superviews)
    1. A. Motro and P. Buneman. Automatically Merging Databases. In Proceedings of COMPCON Fall 80 (Distributed Computing), 21st IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Washington, DC, September 1980, pp. 279–286.
    2. A. Motro and P. Buneman. Constructing Superviews. In Proceedings of ACM-SIGMOD 81, International Conference on Management of Data, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 1981, pp. 120–131.
    3. A. Motro. Interrogating Superviews. In Proceedings of ICOD-2, Second International Conference on Databases, Churchill College, Cambridge, England, September 1983, pp. 107–126.
    4. A. Motro. Superviews: Virtual Integration of Multiple Databases. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. SE-13, No. 7, July 1987, pp. 785–798.
      Included in Multidatabase Systems: An Advanced Solution to Global Information Sharing (A.R. Hurson, M.W. Bright and S. Pakzad, Editors), IEEE Computer Society Press, 1993, pp. 292–305.
  2. View-based multi-database model (Multiplex)
    1. A. Motro. Multiplex: A Formal Model for Multidatabases and Its Implementation. In Proceedings of NGITS 99, Fourth International Workshop on Next Generation Information Technologies and Systems, Zichron Yaacov, Israel, July 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1649, Springer-Verlag, pp. 138–158.
  3. Resolution of multi-database inconsistencies (Fusionplex)
    1. P. Anokhin and A. Motro. Use of Meta-data for Value-level Inconsistency Detection and Resolution During Data Integration. In Proceedings of SCI 01, Fifth World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics — Heterogeneous Data Integration, Orlando, Florida, July 2001.
    2. P. Anokhin and A. Motro. Data Integration: Inconsistency Detection and Resolution Based on Source Properties. In Proceedings of FMII 01, International Workshop on Foundations of Models for Information Integration (10th workshop in the series Foundations of Models and Languages for Data and Objects), Viterbo, Italy, September 2001.
    3. P. Anokhin and A. Motro. Fusionplex: Resolution of Data Inconsistencies in the Integration of Heterogeneous Information Sources. Information Fusion, Vol. 7, No. 2, June 2006, pp. 176–196.
    4. A. Motro, P. Anokhin and A. C. Acar. Utility-based Resolution of Data Inconsistencies. In Proceedings of IQIS 04, International Workshop on Information Quality in Information Systems (at SIGMOD 2004, International Conference on Management of Data), Paris, France, June 2004, pp. 35–43.
  4. Machine learning approach to database integration (Autoplex)
    1. A. Motro, P. Anokhin and J. Berlin. Intelligent Methods in Virtual Databases. In Proceedings of FQAS 00, Fourth International Conference on Flexible Query Answering Systems, Warsaw, Poland, October 2000. Advances in Soft Computing, Physica-Verlag, pp. 580–591.
    2. J. Berlin and A. Motro. Autoplex: Automated Discovery of Contents for Virtual Databases. In Proceedings of COOPIS 01, Sixth IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, Trento, Italy, September 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 2172, Springer-Verlag, pp. 108–122.
    3. J. Berlin and A. Motro. Database Schema Matching Using Machine Learning with Feature Selection. In Proceedings of CAiSE 02, 14th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Toronto, Canada, May 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 2348, Springer-Verlag, pp. 452–466.
      Included in Seminal Contributions to Information Systems Engineering — 25 years of CAiSE (J. Bubenko, J. Krogstie, O. Pastor, B. Pernici, C. Rolland, A. Solvberg, Editors). Springer-Verlag, 2013, pp. 315–330.
    4. A. Motro. Automatch Revisited. In Seminal Contributions to Information Systems Engineering — 25 Years of CAiSE (J. Bubenko, J. Krogstie, O. Pastor, B. Pernici, C. Rolland, A. Solvberg, Editors). Springer-Verlag, 2013, pp. 331–334.
    5. J. Berlin and A. Motro. TupleRank: Ranking Discovered Content in Virtual Databases. In Proceedings of NGITS 06, Sixth International Conference on Next Generation Information Technology and Systems, Shefayim, Israel, July 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 4032, Springer-Verlag, pp. 13–25.
  5. Query consolidation (Retroplex)
    1. A. C. Acar and A. Motro. Inferring User Goals from Sets of Independent Queries in a Multidatabase Environment. In Advances in Intelligent Information Systems. Studies in Computational Intelligence No. 265, Springer-Verlag, 2010, pp. 225–243.
      Earlier abbreviated version: A. C. Acar and A. Motro. Query Consolidation: Interpreting a Set of Independent Queries Using a Multidatabase Architecture in the Reverse Direction. In Proceedings of NTII 08, International Workshop on New Trends in Information Integration (at VLDB 2008, 34th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases), Auckland, New Zealand, August 2008, pp. 4–7.
    2. A. C. Acar and A. Motro. Efficient Discovery of Join Plans in Schemaless Data. In Proceedings of IDEAS 09, 13th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, Cetraro (Calabria), Italy, September 2009, pp. 1–11.
    3. A. C. Acar and A. Motro. Segmenting and Labeling Query Sequences in a Multidatabase Environment. In Proceedings of CoopIS 11, 19th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, Crete, Greece, October 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 7044, Springer-Verlag, pp. 367–384.
  6. Overview of the "plex" line of systems
    1. A. Motro, J. Berlin and P. Anokhin. Multiplex, Fusionplex and Autoplex: Three Generations of Information Integration. ACM SIGMOD Record (Special Section on Semantic Integration), Vol. 33, No. 4, December 2004, pp. 51–57.